GRIFFIN  , a

city and the county-seat of Spalding county, Georgia, U.S.A., 43 M . S. of Atlanta, and about 970 ft. above the sea . Pop . (1890) 4503;(1900) 6857 (3258 negroes) ; (1910) 7478 . It is served by the Southern and the Central of Georgia railways, and is the southern terminus of the Griffin & Chattanooga Division of the latter . The city is situated in a rich agricultural region, and just outside the corporate limits is an agricultural experiment station, established by the state but maintained by the Federal government . Griffin has a large trade in cotton and fruit . The principal industry is the vaanufacture of cotton and cotton-seed oil . Buggies, wagons, chairs and harness are among the other manufactures . The municipality owns and operates the water and electric-lighting systems . Griffin was founded in 184o and was chartered as a city in 1846 .